Gretchen Primack
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When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
— River Phoenix trochee
A metrical foot of two syllables, one long (or stressed) and one short (or unstressed-the opposite of an iamb). Samuel Taylor Coleridge demonstrates the use of various kinds of metrical feet: "Trochee/ trips from/ long to/ short."
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